Margaret Ogilvy

New York, N.Y.: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1915. Later printing [original copyright date is 1896]. Hardcover. Good. Format is approximately 4.75 by 7 inches. [12], 207, [3] pages. Frontis illustration. Cover is worn and soiled. Ink notation on fep. Includes chapters on How my Mother got her soft Face; What She had Been; What I Should Be; An Editor; A Day of her Life; Her Maid of All Work; R. L. S.; A Panic in the House; My Heroine; and Art Thou afraid His Power shall Fail? R. L. S. refers, of course, to Robert Louis Stevenson. Barrie's mother had a negative opinion of R. L. S. which Barrie explained thusly: "If you would know what was his unpardonable crime, it was this: he wrote better books than mine." Sir James Matthew Barrie, 1st Baronet, OM (9 May 1860 - 19 June 1937) was a Scottish novelist and playwright, best remembered as the creator of Peter Pan. He was born and educated in Scotland and then moved to London, where he wrote a number of successful novels and plays. There he met the Llewelyn Davies boys, who inspired him to write about a baby boy who has magical adventures in Kensington Gardens, evolving into Peter Pan, or The Boy Who Wouldn't Grow Up, a 1904 "fairy play" about an ageless boy and an ordinary girl named Wendy who have adventures in the fantasy setting of Neverland. Although he continued to write successfully, Peter Pan overshadowed his other work, and is credited with popularizing the name Wendy. Barrie unofficially adopted the Davies boys following the deaths of their parents. Barrie was made a member of the Order of Merit in the 1922 New Year Honours. He gave the rights to the Peter Pan works to Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children in London. Margaret Ogilvy is a biographical book written in the late 19th century by J. M. Barrie, about his mother and family life in Scotland. According to The Bookman, it was the 7th best-selling book of 1897 in the United States. The book was written in tribute to Barrie's mother and includes family reminiscences. In the book, Barrie recounts his mother telling tales of her childhood, and credits her with inspiring his interest in literature.